[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 33 (Thursday, February 26, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H1179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              DHS SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California. Mr. Speaker, last week Speaker 
Boehner stated that the Republicans were certainly prepared to shut 
down the Department of Homeland Security--a shutdown that would force 
thousands of TSA, Customs, Border Patrol, and Secret Service agents to 
work without pay.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, I am going to tell you, I come back and forth every 
week from Orange County, California. I usually go up to Los Angeles, to 
LAX. I was talking to my TSA guys as I went through the line, taking 
off my shoes. They said: Really, Ms. Sanchez, are they really going to 
do that to us? Are they really going to put our security at stake--
America's security at stake? I said: They have done it before, and they 
are going to do it again.
  I believe that it is time to pass a clean Homeland Security bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the House bring up H.R. 
861, the clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would 
keep the Department open so it can carry out its mission of keeping 
America and Americans safe.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair previously advised, that 
request cannot be entertained absent appropriate clearance.

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